Individual 2019 Membership

Individual 2019-2021 3-Year Membership

$110.00

Individual 3-year HBS membership for membership years 2019-2021. Includes the Historic Brass Journal for 2019, 2020 and 2021. Journals are typically mailed out either at the end of the membership year or at the beginning of the following year.

Students / Seniors 2019

$35.00

Discounted rate for full-time students or senior citizens (65+). This will start with the 2019 membership year and include the 2019 Historic Brass Journal which will be mailed between December 2019 and February 2020.

This latest recording by the River Raisin Ragtime Revue is a fun-filled CD of 21 Rags and popular dance tunes from the first two decades of the last century along with one original composition, Warthog Sride (2013), by the group’s pianist, Catherine McMichael. The program captures the spirit of that early period with the ragtime repertoire and its rollicking gaiety, animal sounds, and general silliness. This is all projected with wonderful musical precision and spirited playing. Most of the composers of these tunes have been relegated to obscurity but some of the more well-known musicians include Fats Waller, Joseph Lamb and James Reese Europe. There are some transcriptions including an arrangement of a 1917 recording of Tiger Rag transcribed by Wycliffe Gordon and an arrangement of Alligator Crawl transcribed from Louis Armstrong’s famous 1927 “Hot Five” recordings. Some other tunes from this musical menagerie are Rooster Rag, Grizzly Bear Rag, Teasing the Cat, Animal Fair, Elephant Rag, Kitten on the Keys, Honky Tonky Money Rag and many others.

Another fine recording by the River Raisin Ragtime Revue, the listener is offered a view of a simpler and less jaded world. They have happily brought back to life many great rags and other tunes that still have the power to please.